The structure and robustness of tripartite ecological networks - Université de Montpellier
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The structure and robustness of tripartite ecological networks

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ABSTRACT Until recently, most ecological network analyses have focused on a single interaction type. In nature, however, diverse interactions co-occur, each of them forming a layer of a ‘multilayer’ network. Data including information on multiple interactions has recently started to emerge, giving us the opportunity to have a first glance at possible commonalities in the structure of these networks. We studied the structural features of 44 tripartite ecological networks from the literature, each composed of two layers of interactions (e.g. herbivory, parasitism, pollination), and investigated their fragility to species losses. We found that the way in which the different layers of interactions are connected to each other affect how perturbations spread in ecological communities. Our results highlight the importance of considering multiple interactions simultaneously to better gauge the robustness of ecological communities to species loss and to more reliably identify the species that are important for robustness.

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hal-03451403 , version 1 (26-11-2021)

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Virginia Domínguez-García, Sonia Kéfi. The structure and robustness of tripartite ecological networks. 2021. ⟨hal-03451403⟩
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